Wood Brothers hope Elliott will qualify without provisional
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Wood Brothers Racing is at Martinsville Speedway secure in the knowledge that the team is locked into Sunday’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
While the team is outside the top 35 in owners points, 1988 series champion Bill Elliott is driving the No. 21 this weekend and is guaranteed into the race by virtue of the past champions provisional, regardless of how the team performs in qualifying today.
Interim crew chief Mike Smith is leading the effort this weekend after the team recently parted company with Gene Nead. Team co-owner Eddie Wood said Smith would be in charge this week, and “Then we’ll go from there.”
As to this weekend, Wood said his team is still working to make the field without using the provisional. Founded in Stuart, Va. – and with the team’s museum still there – Martinsville is the Wood Brothers “home track” and is therefore special to them.
Making the race on their own would be nice, but just knowing they are in it gives the team a break from the pressure for at least a couple of laps this weekend.
Missing four of the first five races, the season has been rough on the Wood Brothers.
“It’s just bad,” Wood said. “Anybody that doesn’t make the show week to week, it’s hard on everybody. It’s hard on the sponsors. It’s hard on the crew people. It’s hard on the driver, whoever. It’s just a bad deal, but you don’t have to come. It’s the way the rules are, and it is what it is, and you come and just do the best you can. But it’s hard.”
- Mentioned Drivers:
- Bill Elliott
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